Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Vice Presidential Candidate, National Democratic Congress (NDC), has expressed concern about reports that the Democracy Hub protestors were treated with high-handedness during their three-day demonstration in Accra.
A statement issued by Mr James Agyenim-Boateng, the Spokesman of the NDC's Running Mate, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the reports of manhandling, arrests, starvation, denial of access to family and legal counsel by the police, as well as the subsequent remand of the protestors, including a pregnant lady, by an Accra Circuit Court were alarming.
It said the brutal and high-handed response of the authorities, raised questions about the government's commitment towards fighting against illegal mining and the destruction of Ghana's water bodies, forest and farmlands.
The statement stressed that Prof.